ISV(i)
10 Whatever these people do not understand, they slander. Like irrational animals, they are destroyed by the very things they know by instinct.
11 How terrible it will be for them! For they lived like Cain did, rushed headlong into Balaam’s error to make a profit, and destroyed themselves, as happened in Korah’s rebellion.
12 These people are stains on your love feasts. They feast with you without any sense of awe. They are shepherds who care only for themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by the winds. They are autumn trees that are fruitless, totally dead, and uprooted.
13 They are wild waves of the sea, churning up the foam of their own shame. They are wandering stars for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.
14 Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied about these people when he said, “Look! The Lord has come with countless thousands of his holy ones.
15 He will judge all people and convict everyone of all the ungodly things that they have done in such an ungodly way, including all the harsh things that these ungodly sinners have said about him.”
16 These people are complainers and faultfinders, following their own desires. They say arrogant things and flatter people in order to take advantage of them.
17Advice to the ReadersBut you, dear friends, must remember the statements and predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah.
18 They kept telling you, “In the last times there will be mockers, following their own ungodly desires.”
19 These are the people who cause divisions. They are worldly, devoid of the Spirit.
14 Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied about these people when he said,
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